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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2019
A. G. Stacker, Inc., Weyers Cave, VA (US);
Clarence C. Allen, Jr., Mt. Crawford, VA (US);
Kennedy Sullivan Larramore, Staunton, VA (US);
Jerry Blosser, Crimora, VA (US);
Eric Stempihar, Rockingham, VA (US);
Randall Donn Senger, Mount Sidney, VA (US);
Joseph Wunder, Lexington, VA (US);
A.G. STACKER INC., Weyers Cave, VA (US);
Abstract
A load former includes a loading zone, a stacking zone adjacent to the loading zone, a platform in the stacking zone, a first drive configured to raise and to lower the platform, and a cookie sheet having a first portion and a second portion adjacent to the first portion. The cookie sheet is shiftable from a first position in which the first portion of the cookie sheet forms a floor of the loading zone and the second portion of the cookie sheet is not located in the loading zone or in the stacking zone and a second position in which the first portion of the cookie sheet extends directly above the platform in the stacking zone and the second portion of the cookie sheet forms the floor of the loading zone. A second drive shifts the cookie sheet between the first position and the second position.